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Kara Davis is a street activist who got her start as a teen with the Sanctuary Movement in Arizona, and worked many years with Act Up and Fed Up Queers in NYC. In the 2000s she attempted some food activism in the "locavore" crazy Hudson Valley by accepting food stamps for pickled vegetables, fresh tofu, seitan, and nut cheese at the farmer's market, and running a sliding scale vegan C.S.A. Kara is a proud volunteer at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary, and lives in a crumbling old house with her girlfriend and too many rescued cats. ...more

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Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat
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Wendy Lee (Goodreads Author),

Carol J. Adams (Editor),

Kara Davis (Goodreads Author) (Editor)

4.28 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions

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